CGIAR exhibits at Climate Change and Development for Africa conference

On 17 October 2011 the first conference on Climate Change and Development for Africa (CCDA-1) kicked off at the UN Conference Center with the theme “Development First: Addressing Climate Change in Africa.

It was organized by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA’s) African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC), a joint initiative of the African Union Commission, the African Development Bank and UNECA, within the framework of Climate Information for Development in Africa (ClimDev-Africa) programme.

CGIAR-affiliated staff attending included James Kinyangi and John Recha from the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security, Simon Langan and Matthew McCartney from the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and Tilahun Amede from ILRI.
A CGIAR exhibition booth was organized by CCAFS, ILRI and IWMI. The exhibition was visited by more than 100 participants from different government, donor agencies and private sectors. Many visitors had a chance to interact with the exhibitors and were able to collect publications and fliers.

Some of the representatives who visited the booth were from the organizations mentioned below:

Africa Carbon Credit Exchange: www.africACCE.com
African Union: www.au.int
Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA): www.asareca.org
CARE International: www.careclimatechange.org
College of the Atlantic: www.coa.edu
Environmental Development Action (enda Ethiopia): www.endaethiopia.org
Environmental Economics Policy Forum for Ethiopia (EEPFE): www.efdinitiative.org
eSystems Africa: www.eSystemsAfrica.com
Ethiopia-Canada Cooperation Office (ECCO): www.cida-ecco.org
Ethiopian Institute of Water Resources: www.eiwr.org
German Development institute (GIZ): www.die-gdi.de
Green works: www.greenworks.co.uk
Greener Ethiopia: www.greenerethiopia.org
IGAD Climate Predication and Application Centre (IPAC) ICPAC: www.icpac.net
International Development Research Centre (IDRC): www.idrc.ca
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD): www.ifad.org
Kenyatta University: www.ku.ac.ke
Mekelle University, Ethiopia: www.mu.edu.et
Namibia Consumer Trust (NCT): www.namibiaconsumer.org
Norway Embassy: www.norway.org
Parliamentary Forum on Climate Change-Uganda: www.parliament.go.ug
SOS Sahel Ethiopia: www.sahel.org.uk/ethiopia.html
Technical University of Denmark: www.dtu.dk/English.aspx
The University of British Columbia: www.ubc.ca
The University of Ngaoundere: www.labogeomatique-un.com
The University of North Carolina – Charlotte (UNC-Charlotte) : www.uncc.edu
The World Bank: www.worldbank.org
UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA): www.un.org/en/development/desa/index.html
UN Economic Commission for Africa www.uneca.org
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF): www.unicef.org
Universiteit Stellenbosch University, South Africa: www.sun.ac.za
University for Peace: www.upeace.org
University of Bayreuth: www.neu.uni-bayreuth.de/en/Uni_Bayreuth/home/index.html
University of Cape Town, African Climate and Development Initiative: www.acdi.uct.ac.za
University of Nigeria, Nuskka, Department of Geography: www.unn.edu.ng
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg: www.wits.ac.za
World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA): www.wspa-international.org